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Appellant Brief - Prisoners' First Amendment Rights in United States District Court

¶ … government policy in criminal justice. Specifically it will answer the question: Do government policy and regulation help or hurt in the racial, ethnic, religious, gender, and sexual orientation area?

DNA in Criminal Cases - Solving Cold Cases in California with Forensic Science

This paper focuses on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), a Supreme Court case in which the Court was called upon to decide the constitutionality of section 203 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA). The BCRA had prohibited unions and corporations from making contributions to political action committees in certain federal elections. The Court deemed the law unconstitutional. This paper discusses the implications of that decision and ultimately concludes that the decision was a bad one.

The view that had been taken by the authorities is that America was a country with too much of liberty - more than was good for its security. Along with this the feeling was that federal law enforcement agencies did not…

You only need to read the newspaper or watch the news to see that the incidence of serious juvenile crime is on the rise in the Unites States. Controversy related to juveniles being tried as adults and subsequent…

Both the United States government and individual state governments as well are concerned about the high rate of illegal immigration into our country. There are several reasons for this.

I am writing today to discuss the issue of censorship, which I see as an imposition of socialism on our capitalism society. Specifically, I am alarmed by SOPA, the Internet censorship bill.

Supreme Court has frequently asserted that "the most basic constitutional rule in this area" of search warrant requirements is that "searches conducted outside the judicial process, without prior approval by judge or…

The book Judicial Dictatorship makes the assertion that the current form and function of the Judicial Branch of the United States Federal Government has far exceed the scope, depth and breadth of what the founders intended and their general practice of judicial review and potentially overturning duly passed laws is a perfect example of that.